Hi, thanks for providing liblivemedia under a free software license. I'm a member of the Debian multimedia packaging team, which takes care for the liblivemedia package.
The Debian ftpmasters have recently reported a concern regarding the licensing of one of the included files, namely liveMedia/our_md5.c (the same applies to the header file). Please see the details of the report here: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=728419 The problem here is that while it has a very liberal intent, this "RSA" license adds additional (advertising) clauses that make it unsuited for use in a LGPL licensed library such as liblivemedia. My current understanding is Debian as third party redistributor may not have the right to ship this package as part of the Debian distribution. I would therefore very much appreciate if you could comment on this issue. Specifically, it would be important for us to know how you, the original authors, would like to proceed with this. In your replies, please copy 728...@bugs.debian.org to have the correspondence archived in the public Debian bug tracking system. Thank you very much for your assistance. -- regards, Reinhard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
